Alliance

"'~ , aLUanceqne aosletLeR
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES -- SAN ANTONIO
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1988
GUEST EDITOR: PENNY CALDWELL
TRAINING TIME
By now most of you are aware
that because of the January build­ing
renovations, the extensive,
intensive docent training is tak­ing
place in September. It will
be held in the Auditorium begin­ning
on September 12th and con­tinuing
through October 7th on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
from 9 AM to noon.
Let me explain for the unini­tiated
that the training includes
an overview of The Institute and
covers the background of several
of the ethnic areas represented on
the Exhibit Floor. Time i s also
devoted to tour techniques, and
some practical Exhibit Floor exer­cises.
An exact schedule of which
topic will be covered on what day
is posted on the bulletin board
in the Alliance office. Veteran
docents are invi ted to attend as
many of the sessions as they
choose to brush up on facts and
perhaps learn some new ones .
*********************************
As of September 1st, Sall y has
been on the staff of the Al liance
office for TEN years!
CONGRATULATIONS!
*********************************
NOW SHOWING
An exhibit of 70 photographs
documenting traditional home and
community devotional folk art of
Catholic Texas-Mexicans will be
featured in the ITC Gallery from
August 30th through October 16th.
Entitled "The Art of Asking: Al­tars
and Yard Shrines in the Tex­as-
Mexican Community", the display
will acquaint viewers with sacred
traditions which reflect the Span­ish
and Indian heritage of the
Mexican culture present in Texas.
today. Home altars, yard shrines,
business altars, street murals,
and graveyard art are among the
subjects recorded by photo­graphers
Kathy Vargas, Robert
Maxham and Russell Lee. The exhi­bit
was organized by Texas Folk­life
Resources of Austin under the
direct i on of Kay Turner. Alliance
members are encouraged to visit
th i s exhibit.
CULTURAL EXCHANGE
On July 8th the Greater San
Antonio Chamber of Commerce hosted
a reception and dinner honoring
Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Chief
of the General Staff of the Soviet
Union, and his American counter­part,
Admiral William Crowe, at
The Institute. Sammy Nakedhead,
Ron Dodson and I had the pleasure
of representing the Alliance at
the tepee, chuckwagon and jacal
(Mexican Kitchen) interpretive
areas.
The Institute's specialist
on the history of Eastern Europe,
Patrick McGuire, who hosted and
guided the military leaders on a
brief tour of the Exhibit Floor,
emphasized the voluntary aspect of
our work as Alliance members. Ap­parently
unfamiliar with the con­cept
of volunteerism, Marshal
Akhromeyev expressed his enthusi­astic
approval of our efforts by
telling me through his Russian
translator that I was very patri­otic.
If the meaning of the word
"patriotic" includes being dedi­cated
to the promotion of human
understanding and communication by
sharing cultural information about
the peoples of Texas, then I
proudly count myself among the
four hundred patriots who volun­teer
their time at the ITC!
Penny Caldwell
WANTED! !! HANDBOOKS
Is your handbook still
around the house? If it is,
believe me when I say that it is
awfully lonely! Once a year it
looks foward to coming together
with all the other handbooks and
catching up on the latest . Please
bring all the lonely ones to the
Alliance Office so that they can
be updated. Handbooks will be
returned to tour docents as soon
as' possible.
*****
Most of us spend a lot of time
dreaming about the future, never
realizing that a li t tle arrives
day.
Alliance Newsletter
September/October 1988
Page 2
"ARE YOU A REAL INDIAN?"
The little boy looked toward
the tipi with large eyes. He
grasped the rabbit fur in his
right hand and scooted closer.
It was Texas Folklife Festival
1988, and people were three and
four deep in a semi-circle around
the tipi. Unlike last year, (from
which I have fond memories of an
ant bed!), the Indians held court
inside (ah, air conditioning), and
many folks were willing to take
time to sit (Indian style, of
course) on the carpet ' in front of
the tipi to listen to "the Indian
story" . A couple of teenagers
skirted the edge of our circle
making a few choice remarks. I
quickly included them in our les­son
and showed them the buffalo
bladder. Impressed with this
"canteen", these fellows seemed to
appreciate the rest of my story.
Everybody seemed most interested,
and I answered many questions from
adults as well as children. Per­haps
the best was the lady who
asked in awe, "WHERE did you GET
all "this stuff?"
Linda Carolan
THE CLOCK STRUCK TWO, AND AWAY
WE FLEW
Indian dress and moccasins
gave way to jeans and suspenders.
Floor length homespun was dis­carded
for denim skirt and peasant
blouse. We hurriedly grabbed our
clogging shoes and hustled. Fire­on-
the- Mountain Cloggers were
performing at 3 PM on stage 8, and
we didn't want to be late because
we were both in the first number.
Norwegian dancers called to us as
we headed out the back door, a
bagpiper saluted as we passed, and
we were greeted with hand waving
from some of the Klompendancers as
we emerged into the sunlight.
Out in the audience were
many performers whom we had seen
on other stages the previous day.
An elderly couple from Beaumont
stopped us as we approached the
back stage area to tell us that
they come every year to Folklife
and always look for us. People we
could not remember called to us by
name.
What a wonderful family the
Folklife participants (and spec­tators)
are! It is like a great
big reunion each year.
Linda Carolan and Katy Barone
~
"KERPLUNK!" "WHAT WAS THAT?"
"Just a docent
spinning and weaving
monstrating the use
spindle."
over in the
exhibit de­of
a drop
Ah, yes, the drop spindle ,
one of the many "modern conve­niences"
of pioneer life demon­strated
during the Folklife Fes ­tival.
Observers were amazed not
only with the actual spinning and
weaving techniques but also with
the length of time it took to make
just one article of clothing.
Adults expressed a special appre­ciation
for our modern textile
industry, while children express­ed
a more romantic view: "I bet
living back then was lots of
fun!" Ah, the fancifulness of
youth! So, for several hours
during the 1988 Folklife Festival
I was able to step back in time
as a pioneer woman and do all the
"fun" stuff.
Katy Barone
SATURDAY SOJOURN
Although reservations for
the Fall Heritage Tours are near ­ing
full capacity, (the Vanishing
Texas River Cruise is already
filled), there are still plenty of
spaces available for the Castro­ville-
Kerrville trip on Saturday,
October 22nd. According to Tour
Coordinator Laurie Gudzikowski ,
Castroville is planning a warm
welcome with coffee and pastries
from the Alsatian Bakery. Begin­ning
at the famous Landmark Inn,
local guides will lead the group
on a walking tour of Castroville,
visiting a restored pioneer home,
an old Catholic church, and a rock
structure which was formerly used
as a convent. A German buffet at
Britsch's Restaurant (Alsatian
Inn) will replenish and refresh
those who have developed hearty
appetites during the morning's
exercise (lunch included in tour
price). Tour members may even
sneak in a siesta during the bus
ride to Kerrville . There they
will visit the Cowboy Artists of
America Museum and the Hill
Country Museum. The latter is the
restored Victorian mansion of
Alsatian pioneer, Captain Charles
Schreiner. This is an all-day
outing, leaving The Institute at
8:30 AM and returning at about 5
PM. A minimum of 35 participants
is needed for this trip.
WOULD YOU HAVE MADE THE JOURNEY?
From 1844 through 1850 thou­sands
of German emigrants under
the auspices of the Veri en zum
Schultze deutcher Einwanderer in
Texas (Society for the Protection
of German Immigrants in Texas)
undertook the long, arduous, and
dangerous ocean ' voyage from Ger­many
to Galveston, Texas. The
"Verein" dedicated itself to "pro­tect
the emigrants on their long
journey and in their new horne, and
to employ every means to secure
for them a new horne across the
seas." But what protection was
afforded the emigrant on this
long and tortuous journey, and
what were the conditions of that
voyage?
Envision, if you can, four
hundred or more emigrants jammed
below the decks of a three-masted
sailing vessel for a period of
forty to ninety days, sailing at
the mercy of tides, storms, calms.
These folks were dependent upon
primitive navigation and the
ignorance of barely skilled sail­ors.
"The ship became a circum­scribed
world of its own, with its
harsh~way of life determined by
the absence of space."
The emigrants' world was
the steerage below decks: twenty­five
feet wide, seventy-five feet
long, five and a half feet high,
with a middle aisle five feet
wide. The compartment, which con­tained
several cooking stoves, had
a few tables and water closets at
either end for the women. Men were
required to go above deck. An
aisle was created by two rows of
bunks that ran to the side of the
ship. The bunks were created by
wooden partitions extending from
floor to ceiling to divide them
from the aisle and by others
stretching horizontally from wall
to aisle to create two decks.
These boxlike spaces, ten feet
wide, five feet long, and less
than three feet high became home
for six to ten people for the
duration of the trip.
Life on the sailing vessel
was trying and difficult. Disease
was familiar; food and water
meager. Ventilation was provided
through the deck hatches, but
these were secured during bad
weather. Normal mortality was ten
percent, but in 1847 it rose to
almost twenty percent.
Such were some of the condi­tions
of sailing to the land of
hope and promise in th~ 1840's.
Would you have made that long
journey?
(excerpts from ~ New_~and
Beckoned. by Oscar Handlin)
Rick Minor
Alliance Newsletter
September/October 1988
Page 3
GOING AND COMING
The Institute just won't be
the same without Mike Gibbons,
who has left his position in the
Educational Programs Department
in order to move to Florida with
his wife Lynn. Mike, who has
been sharing his intense interest
in and broad knowledge of the
Indian cultures of Texas for the
past three years, will be missed.
Penny Caldwell, a docent who
has interpreted the jacal and the
spinning-weaving sections of the
Exhibit Floor since May, has
stepped into Mike's moccasins as
Educational Specialist II as of
September 1st. Penny, whose pri­mary
educational training and ca­reer
experience encompass several
areas within the field of special
education, moved to San Antonio
from Durango, Colorado this past
January. Having been raised in
Dallas and exposed to the Indian
artifacts unearthed in her grand­parents'
cotton fields near Waxa­hachie
at an early age, Penny de­veloped
a life-long passion for
learning about the early inhabit­ants
of this hemisphere.
Taking anthropology classes
at Durango's Fort Lewis College,
earning a certificate of expertise
from the Colorado Archaeological
Society and the Colorado Office of
the State Archaeologist, and ac­tively
participating in her local
archaeological society were mean~
by which Penny fostered her avoca­tion.
Penny's special interest has
been the Pueblo Indian cultures of
the Southwest, past and present.
We welcome her aboard!
FAREWELL
Again it is time to say Good~
Bye. Jewel Stockton, who had been
a tour guide since October 1979,
passed away on July 22nd. ITC had
been a special part of Jewel's
life, and in acknowledging the
memorial which the Alliance sent,
her husband said, "Thank you for
giving her so many happy days."
********************************
Love is not doing for others.
Love is not being my brother's
keeper.
Love is being my brother's
brother,
To help him find his own
resources:
His dignity, his strength, and
his non-dependence.
Bruce Larson; The Meaning and
Mystery of ~~iQg Human
Submitted by Don Wigington
*********************************
Alliance Newsletter
September/October 1988
Page 4
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
The following list is pro­vided
to help you keep track of
happenings that are of interest
to Alliance members. A word to
the wise: scheduled events some­times
change, so it is a good idea
to check on any events you may be
planning to attend.
Aug 30 - Oct 16; Gallery: "The
Art of Asking: Altars and
Yard Art in the Texas-Mexican
Community" Exhibit
Sept 12 - Oct 7; Mon, Wed, Fri:
9AM - noon; Auditorium:
docent training
Sept 12; Mon; 10 AM - 1 PM;
Folk Art Heritage Tour
Sept 12; Mon: 1 PM; Auditorium:
Alliance Meeting
Sept 14: Wed: 1-3 PMj Auditorium:
"Working with Preschoolers"
training
Sept 17: Sat; 10 AM: Exhibit
Floor: Mexican Jacal
Interpretive area training
Sept 26j Mon; 8 AM - 5 PM: Panna
Maria-Helena-Goliad Heritage
Tou,r
Oct 3: Mon; 1 PM; Auditorium:
Alliance Meeting
Oct 22; Sat: 8:30 AM - 5 PM:
SEEDS OF LEARNING
On Wednesday, September 14th
Dr. Sue Worthham, Associate Pro­fessor
of Early Childhood and
Elementary Education at U.T.S.A . ,
will give a short workshop on how
to impart cultural information to
preschoolers through a "hands-on"
approach. Early childhood devel ­opment
researchers have demon­strated
that learning results from
the interaction of a child's own
thinking and his experiences in
the external world. Teachers who
encourage active exploration and
interaction between children and
their learning · environments have
observed resultant problem-solv­ing,
increased self-esteem, and
positive feelings toward learning.
Docents who work with the four and
five year old population have a
wonderful opportunity to "plant
some seeds" of interest and curi­osity
about the rich cultural
heritage of Texans.
All docents, particularly
those involved in tours and Out­reach,
are encouraged to attend
the meeting September 14th from
1:00 to 3:00 PM. ..--<\
"'-- ",
Castroville-Kerrville Heritage
Tour
Oct 27; Thurs; 2 PM: Dome: Nat­uralization
ceremonies
Oct 30: Sun: 2-4 PM; Exhibit
Floor: Spooky Sunday
I, \' ! ,','
/ / '
~1n\~1
~~
CALLING ALL GHOULS ~ ®
,~ .R }~ .,.T~ ~ / .. ""'" "
Nov 7: Mon: 1 PM; Auditorium:
Alliance Meeting
CATS
It's that time of year for
the semiannual CATS training (Con­ceptual
Approaches to Teaching in
Elementary School). U.T.S.A. stu­dents
who are majoring in elemen­tary
education will become famil­iar
faces on the Exhibit Floor
during the month of September.
COME TO THE JACAL
If you have always harbored
a secret desire to know about
food sources and nutrition of
early Texas residents, then mark
Saturday, September 17, 1988 on
your calendar. At this time
Cindi Gonzales will conduct a
training session in the Mexican
jacal at 10 AM. All interpreters
in this area as well as tour
guides are encouraged to attend.
Spooky Sunday at The Insti­tute
will be returning on Sunday,
October 30 from 2 to 4 PM. As it's
been four years since the last
ghostly affair, here are a few of
the activities to be enjoyed by
the many ITC visitors (1200 of
them in 1984) who will attend:
1. Decorating of trick or
treat bags by children
2 . Pumpkin adornment
3 . Apple Bobbing
4 . Fortune-telling (Ouija
board, crystal ball, tea leaves)
5 . Spooky films shown in
the Dome
6. Grand Parade around the
Dome at 4 PM
We need as much Alliance
assistance as we can get for this
event. Both docents and the
public are encouraged to come in
costumes. Any trim, buttons, lace,
cotton balls, etc. you can bring
for the trick-or-treat bags will
be greatly appreciated.
Bonnie Truax will be general
coordinator, but please contact
Dori Lappeus (647-5360) or
Marilyn Pistel (654-1523) if you
can help.
....

Click tabs to swap between content that is broken into logical sections.

University of Texas at San Antonio. Institute of Texan Cultures Records

Transcript

"'~ , aLUanceqne aosletLeR
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES -- SAN ANTONIO
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1988
GUEST EDITOR: PENNY CALDWELL
TRAINING TIME
By now most of you are aware
that because of the January build­ing
renovations, the extensive,
intensive docent training is tak­ing
place in September. It will
be held in the Auditorium begin­ning
on September 12th and con­tinuing
through October 7th on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
from 9 AM to noon.
Let me explain for the unini­tiated
that the training includes
an overview of The Institute and
covers the background of several
of the ethnic areas represented on
the Exhibit Floor. Time i s also
devoted to tour techniques, and
some practical Exhibit Floor exer­cises.
An exact schedule of which
topic will be covered on what day
is posted on the bulletin board
in the Alliance office. Veteran
docents are invi ted to attend as
many of the sessions as they
choose to brush up on facts and
perhaps learn some new ones .
*********************************
As of September 1st, Sall y has
been on the staff of the Al liance
office for TEN years!
CONGRATULATIONS!
*********************************
NOW SHOWING
An exhibit of 70 photographs
documenting traditional home and
community devotional folk art of
Catholic Texas-Mexicans will be
featured in the ITC Gallery from
August 30th through October 16th.
Entitled "The Art of Asking: Al­tars
and Yard Shrines in the Tex­as-
Mexican Community", the display
will acquaint viewers with sacred
traditions which reflect the Span­ish
and Indian heritage of the
Mexican culture present in Texas.
today. Home altars, yard shrines,
business altars, street murals,
and graveyard art are among the
subjects recorded by photo­graphers
Kathy Vargas, Robert
Maxham and Russell Lee. The exhi­bit
was organized by Texas Folk­life
Resources of Austin under the
direct i on of Kay Turner. Alliance
members are encouraged to visit
th i s exhibit.
CULTURAL EXCHANGE
On July 8th the Greater San
Antonio Chamber of Commerce hosted
a reception and dinner honoring
Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Chief
of the General Staff of the Soviet
Union, and his American counter­part,
Admiral William Crowe, at
The Institute. Sammy Nakedhead,
Ron Dodson and I had the pleasure
of representing the Alliance at
the tepee, chuckwagon and jacal
(Mexican Kitchen) interpretive
areas.
The Institute's specialist
on the history of Eastern Europe,
Patrick McGuire, who hosted and
guided the military leaders on a
brief tour of the Exhibit Floor,
emphasized the voluntary aspect of
our work as Alliance members. Ap­parently
unfamiliar with the con­cept
of volunteerism, Marshal
Akhromeyev expressed his enthusi­astic
approval of our efforts by
telling me through his Russian
translator that I was very patri­otic.
If the meaning of the word
"patriotic" includes being dedi­cated
to the promotion of human
understanding and communication by
sharing cultural information about
the peoples of Texas, then I
proudly count myself among the
four hundred patriots who volun­teer
their time at the ITC!
Penny Caldwell
WANTED! !! HANDBOOKS
Is your handbook still
around the house? If it is,
believe me when I say that it is
awfully lonely! Once a year it
looks foward to coming together
with all the other handbooks and
catching up on the latest . Please
bring all the lonely ones to the
Alliance Office so that they can
be updated. Handbooks will be
returned to tour docents as soon
as' possible.
*****
Most of us spend a lot of time
dreaming about the future, never
realizing that a li t tle arrives
day.
Alliance Newsletter
September/October 1988
Page 2
"ARE YOU A REAL INDIAN?"
The little boy looked toward
the tipi with large eyes. He
grasped the rabbit fur in his
right hand and scooted closer.
It was Texas Folklife Festival
1988, and people were three and
four deep in a semi-circle around
the tipi. Unlike last year, (from
which I have fond memories of an
ant bed!), the Indians held court
inside (ah, air conditioning), and
many folks were willing to take
time to sit (Indian style, of
course) on the carpet ' in front of
the tipi to listen to "the Indian
story" . A couple of teenagers
skirted the edge of our circle
making a few choice remarks. I
quickly included them in our les­son
and showed them the buffalo
bladder. Impressed with this
"canteen", these fellows seemed to
appreciate the rest of my story.
Everybody seemed most interested,
and I answered many questions from
adults as well as children. Per­haps
the best was the lady who
asked in awe, "WHERE did you GET
all "this stuff?"
Linda Carolan
THE CLOCK STRUCK TWO, AND AWAY
WE FLEW
Indian dress and moccasins
gave way to jeans and suspenders.
Floor length homespun was dis­carded
for denim skirt and peasant
blouse. We hurriedly grabbed our
clogging shoes and hustled. Fire­on-
the- Mountain Cloggers were
performing at 3 PM on stage 8, and
we didn't want to be late because
we were both in the first number.
Norwegian dancers called to us as
we headed out the back door, a
bagpiper saluted as we passed, and
we were greeted with hand waving
from some of the Klompendancers as
we emerged into the sunlight.
Out in the audience were
many performers whom we had seen
on other stages the previous day.
An elderly couple from Beaumont
stopped us as we approached the
back stage area to tell us that
they come every year to Folklife
and always look for us. People we
could not remember called to us by
name.
What a wonderful family the
Folklife participants (and spec­tators)
are! It is like a great
big reunion each year.
Linda Carolan and Katy Barone
~
"KERPLUNK!" "WHAT WAS THAT?"
"Just a docent
spinning and weaving
monstrating the use
spindle."
over in the
exhibit de­of
a drop
Ah, yes, the drop spindle ,
one of the many "modern conve­niences"
of pioneer life demon­strated
during the Folklife Fes ­tival.
Observers were amazed not
only with the actual spinning and
weaving techniques but also with
the length of time it took to make
just one article of clothing.
Adults expressed a special appre­ciation
for our modern textile
industry, while children express­ed
a more romantic view: "I bet
living back then was lots of
fun!" Ah, the fancifulness of
youth! So, for several hours
during the 1988 Folklife Festival
I was able to step back in time
as a pioneer woman and do all the
"fun" stuff.
Katy Barone
SATURDAY SOJOURN
Although reservations for
the Fall Heritage Tours are near ­ing
full capacity, (the Vanishing
Texas River Cruise is already
filled), there are still plenty of
spaces available for the Castro­ville-
Kerrville trip on Saturday,
October 22nd. According to Tour
Coordinator Laurie Gudzikowski ,
Castroville is planning a warm
welcome with coffee and pastries
from the Alsatian Bakery. Begin­ning
at the famous Landmark Inn,
local guides will lead the group
on a walking tour of Castroville,
visiting a restored pioneer home,
an old Catholic church, and a rock
structure which was formerly used
as a convent. A German buffet at
Britsch's Restaurant (Alsatian
Inn) will replenish and refresh
those who have developed hearty
appetites during the morning's
exercise (lunch included in tour
price). Tour members may even
sneak in a siesta during the bus
ride to Kerrville . There they
will visit the Cowboy Artists of
America Museum and the Hill
Country Museum. The latter is the
restored Victorian mansion of
Alsatian pioneer, Captain Charles
Schreiner. This is an all-day
outing, leaving The Institute at
8:30 AM and returning at about 5
PM. A minimum of 35 participants
is needed for this trip.
WOULD YOU HAVE MADE THE JOURNEY?
From 1844 through 1850 thou­sands
of German emigrants under
the auspices of the Veri en zum
Schultze deutcher Einwanderer in
Texas (Society for the Protection
of German Immigrants in Texas)
undertook the long, arduous, and
dangerous ocean ' voyage from Ger­many
to Galveston, Texas. The
"Verein" dedicated itself to "pro­tect
the emigrants on their long
journey and in their new horne, and
to employ every means to secure
for them a new horne across the
seas." But what protection was
afforded the emigrant on this
long and tortuous journey, and
what were the conditions of that
voyage?
Envision, if you can, four
hundred or more emigrants jammed
below the decks of a three-masted
sailing vessel for a period of
forty to ninety days, sailing at
the mercy of tides, storms, calms.
These folks were dependent upon
primitive navigation and the
ignorance of barely skilled sail­ors.
"The ship became a circum­scribed
world of its own, with its
harsh~way of life determined by
the absence of space."
The emigrants' world was
the steerage below decks: twenty­five
feet wide, seventy-five feet
long, five and a half feet high,
with a middle aisle five feet
wide. The compartment, which con­tained
several cooking stoves, had
a few tables and water closets at
either end for the women. Men were
required to go above deck. An
aisle was created by two rows of
bunks that ran to the side of the
ship. The bunks were created by
wooden partitions extending from
floor to ceiling to divide them
from the aisle and by others
stretching horizontally from wall
to aisle to create two decks.
These boxlike spaces, ten feet
wide, five feet long, and less
than three feet high became home
for six to ten people for the
duration of the trip.
Life on the sailing vessel
was trying and difficult. Disease
was familiar; food and water
meager. Ventilation was provided
through the deck hatches, but
these were secured during bad
weather. Normal mortality was ten
percent, but in 1847 it rose to
almost twenty percent.
Such were some of the condi­tions
of sailing to the land of
hope and promise in th~ 1840's.
Would you have made that long
journey?
(excerpts from ~ New_~and
Beckoned. by Oscar Handlin)
Rick Minor
Alliance Newsletter
September/October 1988
Page 3
GOING AND COMING
The Institute just won't be
the same without Mike Gibbons,
who has left his position in the
Educational Programs Department
in order to move to Florida with
his wife Lynn. Mike, who has
been sharing his intense interest
in and broad knowledge of the
Indian cultures of Texas for the
past three years, will be missed.
Penny Caldwell, a docent who
has interpreted the jacal and the
spinning-weaving sections of the
Exhibit Floor since May, has
stepped into Mike's moccasins as
Educational Specialist II as of
September 1st. Penny, whose pri­mary
educational training and ca­reer
experience encompass several
areas within the field of special
education, moved to San Antonio
from Durango, Colorado this past
January. Having been raised in
Dallas and exposed to the Indian
artifacts unearthed in her grand­parents'
cotton fields near Waxa­hachie
at an early age, Penny de­veloped
a life-long passion for
learning about the early inhabit­ants
of this hemisphere.
Taking anthropology classes
at Durango's Fort Lewis College,
earning a certificate of expertise
from the Colorado Archaeological
Society and the Colorado Office of
the State Archaeologist, and ac­tively
participating in her local
archaeological society were mean~
by which Penny fostered her avoca­tion.
Penny's special interest has
been the Pueblo Indian cultures of
the Southwest, past and present.
We welcome her aboard!
FAREWELL
Again it is time to say Good~
Bye. Jewel Stockton, who had been
a tour guide since October 1979,
passed away on July 22nd. ITC had
been a special part of Jewel's
life, and in acknowledging the
memorial which the Alliance sent,
her husband said, "Thank you for
giving her so many happy days."
********************************
Love is not doing for others.
Love is not being my brother's
keeper.
Love is being my brother's
brother,
To help him find his own
resources:
His dignity, his strength, and
his non-dependence.
Bruce Larson; The Meaning and
Mystery of ~~iQg Human
Submitted by Don Wigington
*********************************
Alliance Newsletter
September/October 1988
Page 4
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
The following list is pro­vided
to help you keep track of
happenings that are of interest
to Alliance members. A word to
the wise: scheduled events some­times
change, so it is a good idea
to check on any events you may be
planning to attend.
Aug 30 - Oct 16; Gallery: "The
Art of Asking: Altars and
Yard Art in the Texas-Mexican
Community" Exhibit
Sept 12 - Oct 7; Mon, Wed, Fri:
9AM - noon; Auditorium:
docent training
Sept 12; Mon; 10 AM - 1 PM;
Folk Art Heritage Tour
Sept 12; Mon: 1 PM; Auditorium:
Alliance Meeting
Sept 14: Wed: 1-3 PMj Auditorium:
"Working with Preschoolers"
training
Sept 17: Sat; 10 AM: Exhibit
Floor: Mexican Jacal
Interpretive area training
Sept 26j Mon; 8 AM - 5 PM: Panna
Maria-Helena-Goliad Heritage
Tou,r
Oct 3: Mon; 1 PM; Auditorium:
Alliance Meeting
Oct 22; Sat: 8:30 AM - 5 PM:
SEEDS OF LEARNING
On Wednesday, September 14th
Dr. Sue Worthham, Associate Pro­fessor
of Early Childhood and
Elementary Education at U.T.S.A . ,
will give a short workshop on how
to impart cultural information to
preschoolers through a "hands-on"
approach. Early childhood devel ­opment
researchers have demon­strated
that learning results from
the interaction of a child's own
thinking and his experiences in
the external world. Teachers who
encourage active exploration and
interaction between children and
their learning · environments have
observed resultant problem-solv­ing,
increased self-esteem, and
positive feelings toward learning.
Docents who work with the four and
five year old population have a
wonderful opportunity to "plant
some seeds" of interest and curi­osity
about the rich cultural
heritage of Texans.
All docents, particularly
those involved in tours and Out­reach,
are encouraged to attend
the meeting September 14th from
1:00 to 3:00 PM. ..--